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I do have a permit and manage about 10 acres for them. This is the 3rd year and so far has been relatively successful in that the ones I've released have survived at least a year. I did start them on the chick crumbles and also gave them baby crickets to try and keep their instincts sharp...

Help! My Bobwhite quail chicks are dying and I don't know the cause. They look fine and an hour later when I check on them there will be a dead one. At first it seemed like normal chick mortality but something else is killing them now. I don't know the poultry terms so I will try to describe...

I started using sand last year in my brooders and it works great. I have a colander with a handle that I use to sift the waste out to keep it clean. I have not had and problem with spraddle leg after switching to sand either.

Thank you for the advice and ideas. I don't think I'll ever get used to losing them. I didn't see any signs of her being egg bound or mites, lice or anything of that nature. It honestly did not even occur to me that maybe she died of old age; I've never had that happen before, there has...

I just found one of my female bobwhites dead and I'm wondering if it was because she was laying too many eggs. I'm still pretty new to bobwhites but I know chickens can have "blow-outs"; I'm wondering if that's what this was. I found her in the nest box with 5 eggs; there was a little blood...